Hawaii House Bill 1298 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 24 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-12-01 - Carried over to 2020 Regular Session.
Pending: House Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Changes the designation of judges of the intermediate appellate court, circuit courts, district courts, and family courts. Repeals the provision that allows the supreme court to summarily remove any district family judge from office and revoke the district family judge's commission whenever the supreme court deems such removal necessary for the public good or the volume of cases within the circuit is reduced to a level where the reduction of the number of district family judges within a circuit is deemed advisable.

Relating To Judges.

Rep. Scott Saiki [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-12-01		Carried over to 2020 Regular Session.
2019-01-31	House	Re-referred to JUD, FIN, referral sheet 9
2019-01-28	House	Referred to JUD, referral sheet 6
2019-01-24	House	Introduced and Pass First Reading.

SB861 (Same As) 2019-12-01 - Carried over to 2020 Regular Session.
HB1298 (Carry Over) 2019-01-31 - Re-referred to JUD, FIN, referral sheet 9

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=HB&billnumber=1298&year=2020
Text	https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2020/bills/HB1298_.HTM